The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 40 years in prison for the man accused of shooting a man to death in Calonge, in Baix Empordà (Girona) in the early hours of September 13, 2020, kidnapping a woman and raping her.
Prosecutor Víctor Pillado accuses him of a crime of aggravated murder, a crime of illegal possession of weapons and a crime of illegal detention in conjunction with a crime of continuous rape. A popular jury will be in charge of judging the case in the Girona Court.
Pillado maintains that around twelve-thirty in the morning on September 13, 2020, the person under investigation went aboard a motorcycle to a place in Castell-Platja d’Aro where prostitution was carried out, even knowing that he did not have the money to pay. the sexual services he intended to hire.
Once there, he pretended that he “had enough financial capacity” to pay and offered a woman 2,000 euros to spend an entire night with her.
The investigator made it a condition that he be at his house. The victim accepted the proposal but demanded that a co-worker take them to the house and collect the agreed money.
Around one in the morning, and as the person under investigation had gone to Platja d’Aro on a motorcycle, the man who was supposed to escort the woman to guarantee her safety, took them to a house, located in Calonge and Sant Antoni. Once there, and with the excuse of taking his own vehicle, the investigated person took a shotgun belonging to his father and put it in the trunk of the car, making sure that the victims did not see it. The defendant lacked a weapons permit.
Afterwards, he guided them with the car towards a path in the Sant Pere urbanization, stopped the vehicle and pretended that he was trying to enter a house.
The prosecutor maintains that it was then that he took out the shotgun and shot the guard. The public accusation highlights that the investigator knew that the deceased was “the obstacle” that prevented him from “satisfying his sexual desires without supporting the agreed price.”
The prosecutor states that the attack was a surprise and that the man had no chance to defend himself because he was “absolutely unarmed.”
The victim died as a result of the attack. The prosecutor points out that the defendant then “forcibly” removed the woman from the security guard’s car and sat her in the passenger seat of her vehicle. “He took her to a lonely and inhospitable place, in the middle of the urbanization and away from the gaze of third parties, as well as from homes or busy public roads,” describes Pillado.
Taking advantage of this, and the fear that the woman had because she had seen him kill her co-worker, he raped her for the first time. He then started her car again, drove to an even further away location and sexually assaulted her again.
The public prosecution’s account of events indicates that the person under investigation, knowing perfectly well that he was “restricting the freedom of movement” of the victim, told her to sleep with him until daylight. The victim was not able to escape until eight in the morning: “he had to escape across the country until he managed to ask for help at a gas station.” Then he went to report it.
According to what was revealed at the time of the events, around seven fifteen in the morning on Sunday, September 13, some hunters called the Local Police of Calonge and Sant Antoni alerting them that they had found the body of the deceased on a road in land. Police officers went there and verified that the man had been shot by a firearm in the chest area.
The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Mossos d’Esquadra opened an investigation to clarify the facts and identify and arrest the perpetrator of the crime.
Shortly after the warning, around seven thirty in the morning, a man went to a Mossos d’Esquadra police station to report that a motorcycle, a car and a shotgun that he had at home had been stolen. He also told the police that his son, then 30 years old, was not at home.
The police investigation linked the three episodes and went to the home of the investigated person. The suspect showed up at the home a short time later and was arrested. The defendant was brought before the court on September 16 and the investigating court 2 of Sant Feliu de Guíxols decreed prison without bail.